you along with international lenders agreed to a controversial topics on bank deposits which could see some customers lose up to twenty percent of their savings. south as old russian tycoon and outspoken prominent critic buddies brzezinski has died in london at age sixty seven some reports say he committed suicide. thousands in damascus attended the funeral of a prominent sunni preacher killed in a suicide attack on a patch multiple that day but also claimed the lives of forty eight hours. this is coming to you live from moscow hello and welcome to the bar on cyprus an

international lenders have managed to strike a long awaited agreement on taxing bank deposits of over one hundred thousand euros held with the country's biggest bank customers also keep large sums of money in other banks will also be forced to sacrifice part of their savings to the country's aging economy. or has the latest details for. what we have now is we agree with forty one percent tox for the positive above one hundred thousand euros in the back of cyprus that's the country's biggest lender and four percent on deposits of about a thousand in other banks so this has been an important information piece of information that people here have been waiting for and this is a good part of that package of cyprus is trying to put together before that sunday meeting in brussels where they will present the entirety of it to the floor of the hope to get approval of what they have so far aside from that levy that they have is the a bad controls that will be imposed on controlling the amount of money flowing in and out of of that the country the country's banks as well as the amount of money

people can access and also be have that data point that want to pull together a certain amount of money that they have to put up with order to get the tender building the euro be allowed again not from the floyd got so that's the latest for now cyprus still knows that the a clock is ticking it still has it still has to get that approval and if not that's where it's be sure is into the promised people have been feeling if you remember that they had come out into the streets precisely because of this a possible attacks on their deposits and also because of all this is certain to be we are not sure if they're going to still have a substantial amount of savings they don't know when they will have access to their cash remember the fans are still close they're not quite up and gone to as much cash as they could they're worried for their jobs so they've been coming out to the streets today we know there have been protests as if people are really feeling frustrated and still even if as of details come trickling through with the latest updates they're not completely satisfied they really want to know where this is all headed and when everything was settled down for them. a trader and

portfolio monitor are after trading for cyprus sometimes as an example of how people can get trapped by banks. the bank has a liability the bank has an obligation to return the money but it's a bank goes bust that money isn't there anymore and that's what happens what's happened in cyprus and might happen in many other places people think you think that if you have morning a bank account it belongs to you you're wrong it doesn't look all says it belongs to the bank the funny thing is that i think people are trusting banks too much but we have to say that cyprus is slightly special case because. there was so so little money in bonds and in unsecured bank obligations compared to the boss it's so it is much harder to harder for this to happen in other european countries but it's not out of the question people should really start we can overturn it it's like gold or bitcoin is to keep trusting everything in

a bank. south exiled russian tycoon and kremlin critic boris berezovsky has died in london aged sixty seven news of his death was first broken in a post on a social media web page apparently by his son in law and his staff earth is in london. police haven't confirmed the name yet but they have said that they've launched an investigation into the death of a sixty seven year old man and that that death is being treated as unexplained now is spoken to. the police and they told me that they usually have to wait for the formal i.d. before they can confirm the name but that confirmation is expected at some point later on today and i also asked them about the speculation around the body having been found in the bathroom that a lot of people reporting that they didn't confirm or deny it but they did tell me that that information didn't come from them of course

a huge amount of state surrounding this death of boris berezovsky the exiled russian taking you know larger than life character there's been talk of health problems of the speculation about suicide as he said there is a huge amount of speculation at this time surrounding the death but right now the circumstances of the death the remain unclear spurs also he made his thoughts you know after the breakup of the city even then we saw him have soft imposed exile and he sort of side in in in britain in two thousand now in the last couple of years he's housen a very high profile court cases a month which is the spectacular falling out he had with fellow russian oligarch roman abramovich back all cases very interesting to listen to the reports from people who were there in the courthouse when boris berezovsky was told that he had lost that case against roman abramovich and of the shock that he had so certainly that was a massive blow to boris berezovsky it seems both personally but also financially as

well of course and it does seem that the fall in on somewhat harder times over the last couple of years with these cool cases now the russian president's press attash a press corps of has said that the president was sent. a letter by boris berezovsky in which he asked her to give notice and return home so that's certainly an interesting twist on that as we said it's been a tough few years and it does seem that there have been a lot of financial problems but of course this is all speculation what we do know right now is that the thames valley police have launched an investigation they cordoned off the area around his home while that investigation is ongoing no confirmation of the name yet and my colleague kevin owen spoke to our correspondent and he for now about the ups and downs of berezovsky relations with the kremlin and his recent appeal to return to russia. top of the russian

government you could say basically it came out that he was involved in numerous scandals that would say he's a convicted criminal here in russia to put it simply not so much a controversial figure in the sense of of scandal surrounding him but controversal because it's flat out he does not get along with the kremlin sarah touched on this a little bit it was no secret he was an outspoken critic of the kremlin about the system in russia and i think that britain gave him didn't go what a rush rather it did it and it hampered british russian relationship so it went straight to the top it's very unclear to russia to this day why the u.k. so protective bitters of ski lots of talk in past years that it had to do with his investments with his money which makes it even more interesting because it's swaying that this is most likely had something to do with his debts with owing lots of money a high profile court cases the most recent one of course with. he was ripped apart

by the judge was nearly wasn't his character he was indeed and this is been going on for some time so it's been it's been happening slowly this letter two months ago according to the two. main press men dmitri biscoe that bitters office he was asking for forgiveness this is interesting and i think this is a late breaking news in the sense that's happening in the middle of the night i think tomorrow we might hear sunday very different stories as well and reactions to this to this letter asking for forgiveness for these convicted crimes money laundering he's also involved with some shady people at least as a scene in russia in london. also in exile connected at least in russia convicted of being involved in terror acts he's a former chechen militants so it's a very intricate circle of people. and political analyst. from russia's commerce sun newspaper says very will go down in russian history as

one of the main political figures of the ninety's but who represents a long gone in the country. probably missed the bit is also he wanted to try to make a deal with putin thinking that he can do it in the way how it was done in the time of year it's in the ninety's when just prolific it was done through such behind the scenes deals on official understanding between on a goddess and probably stations but anyway it seems that it didn't work because we cannot seem to get is also common to russia in the in the recent weeks he was one of the most bright and controversial figures in russian history i think that to name a very small city is a trade marker for russian politics off the ninety's and we had official power of president and prime minister and we had unofficial off sami by our side and bankers have a problem in russia who is ready to take a lead in when president is british to get since euro and actually arriving planes

in russia but this time like it has gone forever. and only way for you this hour blackout behind falls u.s. officials continue to downplay the scale of a much stronger strike and gone time today while the pentagon now wants to expand the notorious the senate seat. and also fund plans for an hour of darkness to save the planet we've got the details of this big turkey in just a couple of minutes for you. we are facing a lot of problems. because no one thought to drink no good school. no developments when you feel south park.

the local what's national five days in a while in all communities you have one your community l.n.g. multan will be used. i don't give it. i don't require my property is i was right. i'll fight. my problem right. this is the welcome back some thousands of syrians are paying their last respects to a prominent sunni cleric killed by a so sided boma in

a damascus small school said today shaikh mohammad saeed ramadan was also a high profile supporter of the embattled president bashar al assad they were in journalist abdullah says the any muslim scholar who goes against the rebels is now a target. clergyman or let's say going to school those who are not with the opposition were targeted or were killed we can remember the names for example like mr ahmed saadat on that those were killed because of having an opinion different done position but everybody believed that what happened is unjustified and cannot be explained we have extremist groups systemic seem to group jihad these waters of fighting against the government and the mr before he was killed last friday in his last speech he said that we should fight with our with the syrian army and we should not fight with with this a position groups so this raises a lot of controversy and controversy and discussion in the syrian society and this lead into this killing and we have mr. permanent.

scolded who lives in he said beforehand that all people who are with the vision even muslims could should be killed if they are supporting the government says the syrian government so this is the context of this killing everybody was angry everybody said that he should not be killed he is one of the most famous. leda in syria everybody said that he did not make a crime he did not kill anyone he just give it is his opinion if you are making enough praise looking for freedom he has the freedom to say whatever he wants that's that's what he wants everybody say that even so someone in his age he's eighty four years old he's not fighting should be should not be killed at all and this is a crime even people a position. people support for the government agreed that this should not be done that way at least. here in political acts of his attorney says the ramifications

the killing could turn the tide of a two year conflict against the rebels. we have entered a new phase where the free syrian army is losing support after this atrocity which really left many million syrians in mourning we've had the sunni syrians chrystia and i know why is she with them all morning and it's a great design i think it was a leading scholar in the mystery and our quote so what this does this essentially comes in the notion of the battle between extremism and moderation you could argue that the who is renowned for its academic achievement was a mouthpiece a kind of symbol of what her. kind of vision of them he was a mouthpiece of moderation and he had many enemies most of them shakes in saudi arabia and qatar and there was a major motive for killing him which was the fact that he was against these unfair cation and this crisis and he rejected the terrorism within which is attacking damascus and aleppo in a database so we could argue that this is a very plain fact that it was condemned by the united nations and it was condemned

by ki-moon as a terrorist atrocity even as a worker and in many numerous areas. new is for hunger striking detainees at guantanamo bay claimed that being denied access to that clients the situation is said to be life threatening as more than one hundred inmates have reportedly been starving themselves for a month and health now u.s. officials have downplayed the allegations that the scale of the crisis saying that only twenty figure detainees are refusing food and while president obama has to not kept his promise to close the center the military now wants forty nine million dollars to upgrade the facility and the tenant when an attorney who advocates for gun time of prisoners. said they denied justice and caged like animals and definitely. the last time that i saw my clients was between twenty the twenty fifth of february and the eighth of march i visited with them multiple times i was shocked at the condition that they're in in fact we were the first people that

broke the story that the hunger strike could be again february the sixth or seventh around that time frame and it continued on my client at that time had lost twenty six pounds and at this point it's official that he has lost almost forty forty pounds one third of his body weight from one hundred forty seven pounds the administration down in guantanamo bay initially denied the report that the hunger strike was occurring they then said it was seven then fourteen then twenty one then they said that it wasn't the largest hunger strike in history then they came out and said it's twenty four twenty five and today twenty six so the story is getting more and more accurate as we go but we're running out of time after eleven and a half years these men that live in animal cages in america's offshore prison in guantanamo bay they ask for justice they've been there eleven and a half years ninety percent of them have no charges i can tell you having looked at my clients cases they will never get a trial based upon the evidence that's against them so if their home countries are not willing to intervene to do something i don't see it coming from washington washington seems to take the position that we don't have the time to deal with

these hundred sixty six condemned men and are off to a prison this is not about soccer fields or food or anything else this is about justice and freedom this is a bigger concept this is what the united states stands for not more servings of food and not more of soccer fields to play on this is a matter of getting these men home or giving them trials and that's the answer. china is stepping up its energy security with the help of russia moscow has agreed to increase oil supplies to beijing but three times the current level along with other multi-billion dollar deals the two powers also injured political change with the new chinese president saying ties with russia will help bring about a fair while daughter. has been following the season pin's first official overseas trip. some of the major points that the chinese leader has also made of course was about the cooperation between russia and china among other things that the two countries also agree on is the fact that it is about time to leave the old

stereotypes behind he said that we're living in the twenty first century and therefore the cold war era is gone and over with and therefore the stereotypes and thinking along those lines also has to go and you also mentioned that forced russia and china out of their cooperation will provide for a fear over world order you also mentioned of course the need to not just to move away from syria types but also to move towards the multiple world and the multiple areas of the of the world is also one of the founding principles of bricks of course brics essentially was a trade and economic organization but it is now moving increasing towards becoming a major geo political player and that is going to be one of the main subjects of discussions during an upcoming brick summit in south africa and yet despite of course there are many agreements on the political level of rushing trying to still have several things that they need to work on and the moment those things that is the gas supplies deal from russia to china which has been in the works for ten

years and it does look like during this visit russia and china have made some headway towards finding a solution but the details of the deal are yet to be figured out and it is expected that those details will come up until the end of the year but of course the chinese leader said that russia and china nevertheless are each other's biggest partner and are vis the seeing eye to eye on a lot of issues and cooperation is something that the two countries are going not just to continue but we'll all start he said that his trip there is a symbolic significance be happening in march because the leader hopes that he will see some very good fruits borne forth from the seeds that he has sown during this visit. and while warning against foreign interference in their fairs of other nations the chinese president's visit to russia has underscored the stars that a counterweight is needed to america's role in global affairs. political analyst and the author of myths lies and oil wars says changing plans trip to is meant to

show that beijing won't be a puppet that sends a signal to the united states to washington who has been very. bristolian and increasingly militarily hostile to chime in the last few years with the asia pivot so-called what russia has to bring to the table is essential for china and that is energy security over pipeline land routes das and oil primarily and at a time when the china's african the oil sources are being increasingly put under pressure from africa in sudan and. it also needs. to organisations that what president putin calls the new eurasian the direction of the russian economy if russia and china are what it hard to give each other then the game is over and you have no contender to sole superpower germany from washington i think that's

a very unhealthy state of the world both for the for china for russia for the rest of the world but also for the united states that too much power concentrated in too few hands is always a danger to world peace political correctness maybe leaving british taxpayers lighting the wall it accommodates non english speaking immigrants one london council blue hull for million pounds on translations that will never be read out his point of boycott went to find out how locals feel about their hard earned money being lost in translation. for those who live in the u.k. and don't speak english the british government's been understanding for the past several years that's because local councils translate information about that services into up to as many as seventy different languages so whether it's your pitch and feeding instructions and or do or leaflets about how to lose weight in the choice of punjabi. it's available and courtesy of the u.k. . and this north london bar

a hiring day the local town hall wasted almost wholesome million pounds translating documents that no one ended up reading leaflets included a school's guidance french somalians her cash as well as a gay lesbian bisexual and transgender services directory and friends they meet reflects what they're doing and before they commit mass amounts of money terrible waste that is not right when i see people homeless on the streets. we need a mistress across however people from different backgrounds with english as a second language flavor so great responsibility to learn english. the minister for local government eric pickles says that the u.k.'s immigrants need to improve their english while local governments could do with brushing up on them mom according to polls putting a stop to the exorbitant translations of public information could help to save

money for persons on the me as well as help to improve the english of immigrants and help to integrate them into british society we need to start getting immigrants to work for the u.k. as opposed to the u.k. spending a lot of money on immigrants we should try and help them but not to extent of wasting it over the counter should have a policy of we shouldn't buy stuff we need to stuff especially when budgets are really big cut translations across all public bodies cos the u.k. government a hundred forty million pounds a year the result something the local government minister told me. sensible situation where no one speaks english as their main language in too many british households so if you can only read your local council news letter in bengali arabic or somali you might think about signing up for some english lessons otherwise it could all end up greek to you. artsy london. now it's an event that has united millions around the world earth hour also turned the lights

off also in the crumbling for the very first time the lights are now by conan the russian capital and my colleague kevin owen spoke. the fascinating of and it was really a spectacular view and for so many here in russia and i'm sure worldwide it was a very inspiring in a very uniting moment not only for. as well as russian cosman out i wonder why he supported that movement and he actually filmed a video but he did that in space and i guess we can now listen to a bit of it you can see clearly just how much our planet needs care and protection when i first came on board the international space station i was amazed by the beauty of the earth it's the most important thing we've got. we depend on it completely and it depends on how we treat it support the earth and we'll be watching here how the earth finally gets its hour of rest well it is

a symbolic movement really it was made to attract more attention towards the problem of the climate change to raise people's awareness of you know carbon pollution and other environmental needs and it causes a lot of you think if you draw it actually it started as a very local events in sydney in australia back in two thousand and seven with just somewhere around two million people only in australia taking part in that but then it's just very quickly growing to massive global events and just for the record back in two thousand and twelve i guess more than one hundred fifty countries took part in that contains. in other news making headlines around the world this hour france has some soldiers to the central african republic to protect the airport all the country's capital bangui as rebels enters the city that's according to a diplomatic source france has already called for an emergency meeting of the un security council to discuss further actions and other rebel forces reportedly shot down

a government military helicopter and are now heading towards the presidential palace the rebel coalition began its offensive in december and has taken control of about at dozen towns. meanwhile france has confirmed a senior al qaeda military commander has been killed during fighting in mali abus aid was killed as part of a military offensive in the mountainous area in the country's north last month paris hailed the ongoing campaign against the islamist insurgency saying it had ended its final state. lotteries have been reported in lebanon after the country's president accepted the resignation of his prime minister najib mikati along with his with his whole government stepping down over the disputed would be sheer group hezbollah the country has seen that has been locked in a political stalemate ever since hezbollah blocks the creation of the supervisory body to oversee the next parliamentary election so it's fears of the move could further destabilize lebanon which is finding it increasingly difficult to prevent

the syrian civil war from spilling over the border. and coming up after the break we'll take an in-depth look at the everyday life of the rebel fighters in the oil rich niger delta stay with us here on c. there was a time of a miracle when bosses were officially surrogate. today if they tried to resegregate the wall next to there would be outrage throughout the usa every t.v. channel and newspaper so segregation in america was wrong but no america funding segregation no for via foreign aid seems to be a ok and jim dandy arab language leaflets have been spread around west bank in palestinian areas asking residents to

start using special bus lines plans to put palestinians on separate bus lines were first announced in november of two thousand and twelve after some complaints by jewish settlers of trouble on the buses between passengers of different ethnicities in regards to the special bus line it's really human rights groups but so i'm said the attempt to put segregation is appalling and the current arguments about security needs an overcrowding must not be allowed to camouflage blatant racism in the one south africa had apartheid they were slammed with sanctions including from the us but if you're israel go ahead and segregate all the buses you like and you'll still be the u.s.'s top recipient of foreign aid at three point one billion dollars a year if there's one thing i don't like it's hypocrisy like this but that's just my opinion. we speak your language as anybody will inevitably and. will use programs and

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